We went to a place called Uphill today, been there a few times, it's just south of Weston super Mare and is entirely different in character - small, pretty village, very quiet, nice beach (although in high season car parking there costs £5.00!!! Rip off! ). At the other end of the beach road is a free car park adjacent to a nature reserve, boatyard, estuary, cafe - lots of lovely walks. We noticed on our walk an absolute forest of blackberry bushes, as far as the eye could see, along with a few sloes......the only trouble being, most of this wonderful bounty is inaccessible, being behind ditches or fences or in boggy ground, or simply behind masses of spiky brambly stuff . And why is it that the berries or sloes that are the biggest, ripest and gorgeously juicy looking are up so high you couldn't reach them without a ladder?

learning to love veg…..except celery :-O

Sun 28-Aug-118:26 pm

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I like the website a lot; blackberry ketchup sounds good.. another addition to my ketchup series!

Sun 28-Aug-1111:53 pm

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ooh - another one to add to my readin list in winter I think

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Look forward to having a proper browse through here.

Thanks for the link.

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My foraging for mushrooms yesterday went awry, the only likely looking candidates went blue when cut " not good. and I got lots of mozzie bites into the bargain.

Clever clogs! Why is it that when Janet and I post pictures, they get lots of gobbledegook around them and you did it perfectly?

I'll try that again!

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well said TA, well Gottknit..I'm waiting

Lovely pics though

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Great pictures Jean. What fabulous bounty you have found.

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You have set me a problem now - am going to have to post a random picture here to see if I can, and then tell you how it happened.

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Ok, what I did was find the picture on my Flickr account and click the share button. I copied the address, and then when I came back to here, clicked on the "insert image" button, and pasted the address into the appropriate box. Last ime I got a line of text, which turned into pictures when I saved the post, but this time, I have got a little box with a bit of torn paper. So now I will save this post, and see what happens. Want an icon of crossed fingers.